MixedTimes - Ali Waked

TEL AVIV -- Recent reports of a deterioration in the health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off fears of a political war of succession that could work to the advantage of Hamas, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The Islamic State terrorist group published photos on its Telegram account showing "child soldiers" executing Afghani soldiers who were purportedly captured by IS during fighting in the Nanajahar region in Afghanistan.

The Islamic State has released propaganda photos that the terrorist group claims depicts the lives led by its jihadists in Iraq despite declarations from the Iraqi government that IS has been ejected from the country.

TEL AVIV -- In a highly unusual ruling, a judge in Lebanon has ordered three Muslim men to learn passages from the Quran by heart that praise and glorify the Virgin Mary after they were found guilty of insulting the religious figure, according to a report by the Al Arabiya television network.

TEL AVIV -- Nayef Hawatmeh, secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has met Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah and the two have agreed to act together against Israel, the Palestinian terror figure told the pro-Iranian Al Mayadeen network based in Beirut.

TEL AVIV -- Hamas and the other armed factions active in the Gaza Strip have warned citizens to prepare for an Israeli incursion into the territory which could come as soon as the next few days, according to senior sources in the Palestinian organizations who spoke to the London-based international Saudi publication Al Hayat.

TEL AVIV -- Despite its continued weakening position in Syria and near-complete removal from Iraq, the Islamic State terrorist organization has disseminated propaganda photos showing IS police beating a Syrian resident of accused of selling cigarettes.

TEL AVIV -- In an attempt to sway the opinions of young Islamist extremist Gazans, Hamas published a video the terrorist organization says shows that the Islamic State is cooperating with Israel to keep the Gaza Strip under siege.

TEL AVIV -- Arab countries recently made contact with prominent personalities and Palestinian officials who live in Jerusalem with the goal of changing the Palestinian leadership to officials who would accept the Trump administration’s Mideast peace deal, an official from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party claims.

TEL AVIV -- The Islamic State in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula published photos of Wilyat Sinai, the jihadist organization's Egyptian branch, burning large amounts of drug plants grown by the Sawarkeh tribe, many of whose members fill key roles in the terrorist organization.

American sites in the Palestinian territories have been declared as legitimate targets by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hani Sawabteh, an official from the group, confirmed to Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the so-called military wing of the Marxist-oriented Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is threating to attack American targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories - the first time it has publicly done so in decades.

TEL AVIV – Arab world social media was in celebratory mode in the hours following the UN General Assembly’s nonbinding vote seeking to essentially rescind President Donald Trump's declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

TEL AVIV -- The Khaled Bin Walid group, subservient to the Islamic State and active in southern Syria, recently released photos purporting to show the executions of three Syrian civilians accused of cooperating with other so-called opposition organizations.

TEL AVIV -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for his aggressive speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul in response to U.S.

TEL AVIV -- Reacting on social media, commentators in the Arab world responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel with a mix of outrage, conspiracy theories, and anti-Semitic statements.

TEL AVIV -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly objected to the move of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his office said in a special statement released Tuesday and carried by the official Palestinian news agency.

TEL AVIV -- Reconciliation talks between the Palestinian faction concluded Thursday in Cairo without achieving any breakthrough to bring the Palestinian Authority back in full control of the Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV -- Jihadists in the Gaza Strip affiliated with the Iran-backed Islamic State and other Salafist terrorist organizations won't allow alcohol and nightclubs to return to Gaza along with the Palestinian Authority, one senior jihadist told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- PLO members and their organizations won't accept the peace deal reportedly being drafted by Trump administration officials, including Trump’s son-in-law, Jarred Kushner, several PLO members told Breitbart Jerusalem in a series of interviews.

TEL AVIV -- Saudi Arabia's central bank and other banks have frozen the accounts of 1200 companies and officials as a widespread crackdown against corruption at the highest levels of the kingdom's leadership continues, reported the Saudi paper Okaz.

TEL AVIV -- Hamas is treating the issue of reconciliation with the Fatah movement and the Palestinian Authority as a strategic one, according to the organization's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, who added during a meeting with unions in Gaza that divisions will not be allowed to continue.

TEL AVIV -- Two former Hamas members who entered Sinai to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State have been killed during clashes with the Egyptian army, a senior jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- The Islamic State terror organization has published what it claims are photos of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS, purporting to show how the murderous group is forcing sharia law over those who live in their areas of control in Sinai, despite the war being waged against them by the Egyptian army.

TEL AVIV -- The king of Saudi Arabia announced a royal decree last week lifting restrictions on women that forbade them from driving or acquiring a driver’s license, before which Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world to impose such a ban on female drivers.

TEL AVIV -- Fatah Revolutionary Council secretary Fayez Abou Aita told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview that his movement is preparing to return to power in the Gaza Strip amid progress in Egypt-brokered talks toward reconciliation between the movements of Fatah and the Hamas terrorist group.

TEL AVIV -- Hamas has suffered another embarrassment after three of its members purportedly successfully infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday and joined Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV -- Arabic social media has been buzzing with commentary on the most recent nuclear test performed by North Korea, with many blaming the situation on the international community's nuclear deal with the Iranian regime.

TEL AVIV -- "The UN Secretary General didn't raise the issue of prisoners' and martyrs' salaries and we won't agree to discuss this issue," Fatah Revolutionary Council member Ahmad Ghunaim told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- The current American administration is not trustworthy and won't give anything to the Palestinians, members of Hamas and the National Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- Talk of any U.S.-led initiative to revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is a “delusion," charged Palestinian official Mahmoud Aloul, a Fatah deputy to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

TEL AVIV -- Special intelligence forces of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have foiled an attempt by six Hamas militants to join Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a Hamas security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- A draft bill presented to Tunisian parliament that would give women and men equality with regard to inheritance laws and allow Muslim Tunisian women to marry non-Muslim men has drawn anger from the conservative circles in the country and the wider Arab world.

TEL AVIV -- The Islamic State is releasing an increasing number of propaganda photos and reports about the territory of the caliphate and the fulfillment of "the commandments of sharia," apparently in a last-ditch effort to woo supporters around the world and recruit them to its ranks as fierce battle rages in the Raqqa district, where the organization's so-called capital city is located.

TEL AVIV -- Amidst what appears to be the death throes of the Islamic State, the group's propagandists have released undated photos purportedly from the district of Damascus in Syria showing everyday life in the caliphate.

Members of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of Islamic State, have been seeking to increase the recruitment of Gazan jihadists to join IS in Sinai, a senior jihadist in Gaza has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Members of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of Islamic State, have been seeking to increase the recruitment of Gazan jihadists to join IS in Sinai, a senior jihadist in Gaza has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- A significant improvement in ties between Hamas and Iran has taken place in recent days with developing contacts between the two sides aiming to increase Iran's financial support for Hamas.

The bill in Israel's Knesset to allow death sentences for terrorists won't deter the Palestinians and resistance will continue, Palestinian officials have said in conversations with Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV -- Leaders of the Waqf and Muslim figures in Jerusalem are waiting for a report from a special committee of engineers and inspectors commissioned by the Waqf to determine what so-called damages Israel may have caused to the Temple Mount complex during the two weeks Muslim worshippers were absent from the site.

Israel has no historic or religious right or affinity to the al-Aqsa Mosque, and "Israel's actions in that place are unilateral actions meant to strengthen Israel's grip on Jerusalem," Hatem Abdel Qader, the head of Jerusalem matters for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.

TEL AVIV -- It's not unusual to see a Gazan woman riding on the back of a motorbike driven by her male partner or family member. But this sight is expected to disappear due to a decision by Hamas police in the Gaza Strip to forbid women from riding motorbikes with their partners or family members.